Harry's Turbin Dream (was:Re: ChoosingGoodnes/Snape/Albus...)

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No: HPFGUIDX 127017


>>Geoff:
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>The full quote is:
>'Perhaps Harry had eaten a bit too much because he had a very 
strange dream. He was wearing Professor Quirrell's turban which kept 
talking to him, telling him he must transfer to Slytherin at once 
because it was his destiny. Harry told the turban he didn't want to 
be in Slytherin; it got heavier and heavier; he tried to pull it off 
but it tightened painfully - and there was Malfoy, laughing at him as 
he struggled with it - then Malfoy turned into the hook-nosed 
teacher, Snape, whose laugh became high and cold - there was a burst 
of green light and Harry woke, sweating and shaking.'
>PS "The Sorting Hat" p.97 UK edition)<

Betsy:
So of course I'm going to run with this and posit that Harry's dream 
foreshadow's Draco being the Slytherin needed for the good guys to 
win (I refrained from calling him the "good" Slytherin, because it 
implies that all other Slytherins are bad - which strikes me as 
highly illogical.)

Back to the dream: Either Voldemort is speaking to Harry directly 
(doubtful since Voldemort appeared to only learn of his psychic link 
with Harry in OotP *after* his attack on Arthur Weasley at the MoM), 
or Harry is dealing with his near brush with becoming a Slytherin and 
JKR uses this dream to hint at a few things.

Harry, unconsciously recognizing that Voldemort is within Quirrell's 
turban and linking everything bad about wizards with Slytherin, 
follows a natural bridge from his peer Slytherin (Draco) to an adult 
Slytherin (Snape) to the ultimate evil Slytherin (Voldemort).  

But JKR may also be throwing in some meta stuff too.  After all, 
Snape is *not* an evil Slytherin.  He's a major part of the Order, 
and Dumbledore's right hand man (McGonagall would be the right hand 
woman).  So maybe Draco is not going to be an *evil* Slytherin, and 
instead be just a Slytherin, maybe *the* Slytherin needed to help 
defeat Voldemort.

Betsy, ever hopeful